GM Ipatov is World Junior Chess Champion 2012
Alexander Ipatov won the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, Greece. Ipatov collected 10,0/13 to claim first place. He finished with the same points as the silver medalist GM Richard Rapport, but with a better tiebreak. GM Ding Liren won the bronze medal with 9,0/13, also on tiebreak with GM Nils Grandelius.
According to regulations Ipatov qualifies to the World Cup 2013, part of the World Championship Cycle 2012-2014. He also gains 24,4 ELO points to cross the 2600 ELO mark.
Alexander Ipatov’s name is now next to a long list of World Junior Champions including Viswanathan Anand, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Beliavsky, Garry Kasparov, Kiril Georgiev, Maxim Dlugy, Vladimir Akopian, Emil Sutovsky, Lazaro Bruzon, Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Pentala Harikrishna, Zaven Andriasian, Ahmed Adly, Abhijeet Gupta, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Dmitry Andreikin, Dariusz Świercz, etc. (see full list below)
Full standings boys section / Results / Replay games
Photos from the World Junior 2012
Click on each photo for full view. All photos by A. Karlovich.
More about Alexander Ipatov
Alexander Ipatov, born in Ukraine 16th of July 1993. He is two times vice-champion of the Ukraine among boys under 10 years (2003), under 14 (2007), under 16 and 20 (2008, he was just 14 at the time!). He is Master of Sports (the Ukraine) and a participant of two World championships under 10 years (2003, 11th place), under 14 years (2007, 8th place). His first major feat was the 2nd place at the International Chess tournament Le Mans (France, 2008).
However, Alexander Ipatov first got on the radar of international top chess when he joined as commentator of Chessdom.com for Corus 2010. At the time he had 2497 ELO, but bravely took on the task that has previously been given to renowned chess players as World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, the French national team player GM Christian Bauer, the current Russian champion Natalia Pogonina, GM Aveskulov, IM Perunovic, etc, where the young Ipatov showed great understanding of middle and endgames, winning many fans internationally.
Soon after, while commenting the World Chess Championship live in Sofia, he won the strong Sofia Blitz Championship and from there his success followed one after the other. A few months later IM Ipatov won a medal and GM norm at Cappelle La Grande and the same year came his final GM norm in Nakhchivan with equal points as Vallejo, Sokolov, and Almasi.
Early in 2012 he was attracted by the Turkish Chess Federation and the same year he brings the first gold from World Junior Championships to the country. His next event is the important World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, where he will be on the top boards of the team.
World Junior Champions
| 1 | 1951 | Coventry/Birmingham | Borislav Ivkov |
| 2 | 1953 | Copenhagen | Oscar Panno |
| 3 | 1955 | Antwerp | Boris Spassky |
| 4 | 1957 | Toronto | William Lombardy |
| 5 | 1959 | Münchenstein | Carlos Bielicki |
| 6 | 1961 | The Hague | Bruno Parma |
| 7 | 1963 | Vrnjac(ka Banja | Florin Gheorghiu |
| 8 | 1965 | Barcelona | Bojan Kurajica |
| 9 | 1967 | Jerusalem | Julio Kaplan |
| 10 | 1969 | Stockholm | Anatoly Karpov |
| 11 | 1971 | Athens | Werner Hug |
| 12 | 1973 | Teesside | Alexander Beliavsky |
| 13 | 1974 | Manila | Anthony Miles |
| 14 | 1975 | Tjentište | Valery Chekhov |
| 15 | 1976 | Groningen | Mark Diesen |
| 16 | 1977 | Innsbruck | Artur Yusupov |
| 17 | 1978 | Graz | Sergey Dolmatov |
| 18 | 1979 | Skien | Yasser Seirawan |
| 19 | 1980 | Dortmund | Garry Kasparov |
| 20 | 1981 | Mexico City | Ognjen Cvitan |
| 21 | 1982 | Copenhagen | Andrei Sokolov |
| 22 | 1983 | Belfort | Kiril Georgiev |
| 23 | 1984 | Kiljava | Curt Hansen |
| 24 | 1985 | Sharjah | Maxim Dlugy |
| 25 | 1986 | Gausdal | Walter Arencibia |
| 26 | 1987 | Baguio | Viswanathan Anand |
| 27 | 1988 | Adelaide | Joël Lautier |
| 28 | 1989 | Tunja | Vasil Spasov |
| 29 | 1990 | Santiago | Ilya Gurevich |
| 30 | 1991 | Mamaja | Vladimir Akopian |
| 31 | 1992 | Buenos Aires | Pablo Zarnicki |
| 32 | 1993 | Kozhikode | Igor Miladinovic’ |
| 33 | 1994 | Caiobá | Helgi Grétarsson |
| 34 | 1995 | Halle | Roman Slobodjan |
| 35 | 1996 | Medellín | Emil Sutovsky |
| 36 | 1997 | Z.agan’ | Tal Shaked |
| 37 | 1998 | Kozhikode | Darmen Sadvakasov |
| 38 | 1999 | Yerevan | Alexander Galkin |
| 39 | 2000 | Yerevan | Lázaro Bruzón |
| 40 | 2001 | Athens | Peter Acs |
| 41 | 2002 | Goa | Levon Aronian |
| 42 | 2003 | Nakhchivan | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |
| 43 | 2004 | Kochi | Pendyala Harikrishna |
| 44 | 2005 | Istanbul | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |
| 45 | 2006 | Yerevan | Zaven Andriasian |
| 46 | 2007 | Yerevan | Ahmed Adly |
| 47 | 2008 | Gaziantep | Abhijeet Gupta |
| 48 | 2009 | Puerto Madryn | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
| 49 | 2010 | Chotowa | Dmitry Andreikin |
| 50 | 2011 | Chennai | Dariusz Swiercz |
| 51 | 2012 | Athens | Alexander Ipatov |
Final standings World Junior 2012
| 1 | GM | Ipatov Alexander | TUR | 2577 | 10 | 30375 |
| 2 | GM | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2605 | 10 | 30059 |
| 3 | GM | Ding Liren | CHN | 2695 | 9.5 | 30192 |
| 4 | GM | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2562 | 9.5 | 29832 |
| 5 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2635 | 9 | 30438 |
| 6 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2567 | 9 | 30174 |
| 7 | GM | Zherebukh Yaroslav | UKR | 2629 | 9 | 29366 |
| 8 | IM | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2481 | 9 | 29093 |
| 9 | GM | Huschenbeth Niclas | GER | 2532 | 9 | 29017 |
| 10 | IM | Hansen Eric | CAN | 2472 | 9 | 28596 |
| 11 | FM | Wei Yi | CHN | 2418 | 8.5 | 30449 |
| 12 | GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2596 | 8.5 | 30109 |
| 13 | GM | Van Kampen Robin | NED | 2565 | 8.5 | 29411 |
| 14 | IM | Antipov Mikhail Al | RUS | 2462 | 8.5 | 29175 |
| 15 | IM | Andersen Mads | DEN | 2464 | 8.5 | 27980 |
| 16 | IM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2516 | 8 | 29774 |
| 17 | GM | Cori Jorge | PER | 2487 | 8 | 29751 |
| 18 | GM | Salem A R Saleh | UAE | 2546 | 8 | 29260 |
| 19 | IM | Yilmaz Mustafa | TUR | 2543 | 8 | 29212 |
| 20 | IM | Holt Conrad | USA | 2498 | 8 | 28961 |
| 21 | FM | Schreiner Peter | AUT | 2444 | 8 | 28921 |
| 22 | GM | Baron Tal | ISR | 2451 | 8 | 28851 |
| 23 | IM | Kovalev Vladislav | BLR | 2485 | 8 | 28842 |
| 24 | IM | Heimann Andreas | GER | 2493 | 8 | 28812 |
| 25 | IM | Bluebaum Matthias | GER | 2424 | 8 | 28809 |
| 26 | IM | Shyam Sundar M | IND | 2486 | 8 | 28593 |
| 27 | IM | Gao Rui | CHN | 2442 | 8 | 28402 |
| 28 | IM | Kanarek Marcel | POL | 2487 | 8 | 27853 |
| 29 | IM | Shyam Nikil P | IND | 2484 | 8 | 27693 |
| 30 | IM | Bajarani Ulvi | AZE | 2446 | 8 | 27691 |
| 31 | Stanciu Alexandru-Ovidiu | ROU | 2342 | 8 | 27528 | |
| 32 | Lapidus Mark | EST | 2129 | 7.5 | 29307 | |
| 33 | IM | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2488 | 7.5 | 29117 |
| 34 | IM | Urkedal Frode | NOR | 2473 | 7.5 | 28960 |
| 35 | FM | Soors Stef | BEL | 2364 | 7.5 | 28033 |
| 36 | FM | Hernandez Sanchez Jairo Andres | COL | 2288 | 7.5 | 27950 |
| 37 | Sodikov Ilyas | KAZ | 2234 | 7.5 | 27358 | |
| 38 | IM | Mihok Oliver | HUN | 2456 | 7.5 | 27310 |
| 39 | Galopoulos Nikolaos | GRE | 2402 | 7.5 | 27041 | |
| 40 | CM | Farid Firman Syah | INA | 2318 | 7.5 | 25971 |
| 41 | IM | Grigoryan Karen H | ARM | 2529 | 7 | 29885 |
| 42 | FM | Kigel Dmytro | UKR | 2276 | 7 | 29532 |
| 43 | FM | Hambleton Aman | CAN | 2244 | 7 | 29390 |
| 44 | Potpara Nikola | MNE | 2201 | 7 | 29062 | |
| 45 | FM | Codenotti Marco | ITA | 2314 | 7 | 28602 |
| 46 | IM | Pavlidis Antonios | GRE | 2466 | 7 | 28562 |
| 47 | FM | Ghosh Diptayan | IND | 2417 | 7 | 28545 |
| 48 | FM | Griffiths Ryan Rhys | IRL | 2362 | 7 | 28247 |
| 49 | IM | Baghdasaryan Vahe | ARM | 2368 | 7 | 28214 |
| 50 | Ladva Ottomar | EST | 2153 | 7 | 28177 | |
| 51 | IM | Zhou Yang-Fan | ENG | 2430 | 7 | 28112 |
| 52 | IM | Dimitrov Radoslav | BUL | 2424 | 7 | 27962 |
| 53 | FM | Kilpatrick Callum | ENG | 2326 | 7 | 27950 |
| 54 | IM | Anwesh Upadhyaya | IND | 2374 | 7 | 27887 |
| 55 | IM | Valsecchi Alessio | ITA | 2427 | 7 | 27852 |
| 56 | IM | Mazur Stefan | SVK | 2394 | 7 | 27497 |
| 57 | Arvola Benjamin | NOR | 2300 | 7 | 27278 | |
| 58 | FM | Gemy Jose Daniel | BOL | 2345 | 7 | 27091 |
| 59 | FM | Malikentzos Sotirios | GRE | 2337 | 7 | 26852 |
| 60 | Gantar Jan | SLO | 2218 | 7 | 26400 | |
| 61 | IM | Debashis Das | IND | 2446 | 6.5 | 29793 |
| 62 | FM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr | IND | 2240 | 6.5 | 28763 |
| 63 | IM | Barbosa Evandro Amorim | BRA | 2436 | 6.5 | 28441 |
| 64 | Torres Juan Camilo | COL | 2291 | 6.5 | 28168 | |
| 65 | Minko Vladimir | RUS | 2257 | 6.5 | 28167 | |
| 66 | IM | Firat Burak | TUR | 2423 | 6.5 | 28066 |
| 67 | FM | De Filomeno Simone | ITA | 2358 | 6.5 | 28006 |
| 68 | Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis | GRE | 2109 | 6.5 | 27783 | |
| 69 | IM | Rombaldoni Axel | ITA | 2494 | 6.5 | 27358 |
| 70 | Arat Ufuk Sezen | TUR | 2124 | 6.5 | 26929 | |
| 71 | FM | Jacko Vladimir | SVK | 2349 | 6.5 | 26602 |
| 72 | IM | Brown Andrew | AUS | 2296 | 6.5 | 26173 |
| 73 | FM | Thavandiran Shiyam | CAN | 2301 | 6 | 28968 |
| 74 | FM | Aggelis Nikolaos | GRE | 2352 | 6 | 28501 |
| 75 | FM | Kleinman Michael | CAN | 2330 | 6 | 28306 |
| 76 | Podolsky Anton | UKR | 2246 | 6 | 28290 | |
| 77 | Sreeves Clement | SCO | 2191 | 6 | 27834 | |
| 78 | FM | Leiva Giuseppe | PER | 2283 | 6 | 27733 |
| 79 | Nadirashvili Shalva | GEO | 2151 | 6 | 27694 | |
| 80 | Larmuseau Maarten | BEL | 2245 | 6 | 27536 | |
| 81 | Vaicekauskas Gytis | LTU | 2079 | 6 | 27473 | |
| 82 | FM | Nuri Kambez | SUI | 2274 | 6 | 27288 |
| 83 | Dounis Alexandros | GRE | 2298 | 6 | 27214 | |
| 84 | Vasques Antonio Pedro Freixial | POR | 2214 | 6 | 27206 | |
| 85 | FM | Velten Paul | FRA | 2366 | 6 | 27048 |
| 86 | FM | Grandadam Nicolas | SUI | 2333 | 6 | 26803 |
| 87 | IM | Wageih Kareim | EGY | 2332 | 6 | 26510 |
| 88 | FM | Rios Cristhian Camilo | COL | 2398 | 6 | 26373 |
| 89 | Aghayev Miragha | ITA | 2187 | 5.5 | 28790 | |
| 90 | Stathopoulos Ioannis | GRE | 2216 | 5.5 | 28736 | |
| 91 | Naoum Spyridon | GRE | 2146 | 5.5 | 28335 | |
| 92 | Nishant Malhotra | IND | 2076 | 5.5 | 28111 | |
| 93 | Ivekovic Zvonimir | CRO | 2320 | 5.5 | 28052 | |
| 94 | Ashiku Franc | ALB | 2152 | 5.5 | 27352 | |
| 95 | Kvaratskhelia Dimitri | GEO | 2093 | 5.5 | 27337 | |
| 96 | Zeppos Panagiotis | GRE | 1978 | 5.5 | 27016 | |
| 97 | Liodakis Konstantinos-Spyros | GRE | 2130 | 5.5 | 26978 | |
| 98 | Kalogridakis Georgios | GRE | 2017 | 5.5 | 26760 | |
| 99 | Michelakos Panagiotis | GRE | 2185 | 5.5 | 26759 | |
| 100 | IM | Krysa Leandro | ARG | 2438 | 5.5 | 26521 |
| 101 | Torkkola Henri | FIN | 2123 | 5.5 | 26484 | |
| 102 | Carbone Diego | URU | 2069 | 5.5 | 26240 | |
| 103 | Haarr Jon Kristian | NOR | 2245 | 5.5 | 26028 | |
| 104 | Haria Ravi | ENG | 2054 | 5.5 | 25583 | |
| 105 | Edwards Jonathan | SCO | 2170 | 5.5 | 24720 | |
| 106 | CM | Muhammad Luthfi Ali | INA | 2078 | 5 | 28162 |
| 107 | Papasimakopoulos Alexandros | GRE | 2126 | 5 | 27454 | |
| 108 | Koutoukidis Panagiotis | GRE | 2167 | 5 | 26449 | |
| 109 | Vandevenne Sander | BEL | 2083 | 5 | 26206 | |
| 110 | Zulfic Fedja | AUS | 2135 | 5 | 26199 | |
| 111 | Larmuseau Michiel | BEL | 2154 | 5 | 26191 | |
| 112 | Caetano Hugo Zanotti Mendonca | BRA | 2109 | 4.5 | 27953 | |
| 113 | Yurtseven Melih | TUR | 2126 | 4.5 | 26901 | |
| 114 | Poulopoulos Ioannis | GRE | 2007 | 4.5 | 26687 | |
| 115 | Zwakala Ntando | RSA | 2054 | 4.5 | 26349 | |
| 116 | Stepanyan Henrik | ENG | 2022 | 4.5 | 26268 | |
| 117 | Du Plessis Heinco | RSA | 2075 | 4.5 | 26035 | |
| 118 | Kalofonos Panayotis | GRE | 1806 | 4.5 | 25889 | |
| 119 | Jones William E G | ENG | 2127 | 4.5 | 25679 | |
| 120 | Jefic Srdjan | BIH | 2165 | 4.5 | 24527 | |
| 121 | Capone Nicola | BEL | 2120 | 4 | 26586 | |
| 122 | Papasimakopoulos Vasilios | GRE | 1820 | 4 | 25656 | |
| 123 | Wu Kevin | CAN | 1905 | 4 | 24930 | |
| 124 | Tsiros Fragkiskos Vlasios | GRE | 1897 | 4 | 24636 | |
| 125 | Zervos Lazaros | GRE | 1799 | 4 | 24501 | |
| 126 | Davis Ashley J | WLS | 1929 | 4 | 24077 | |
| 127 | Alexiadis Hristos | GRE | 1769 | 3.5 | 25624 | |
| 128 | Cajahuanca Ramirez Olindo | PER | 1856 | 3.5 | 24248 | |
| 129 | Hatzoudis Gerasimos | GRE | 1843 | 2.5 | 24.5 | |
| 130 | Panagos Theodoros | GRE | 1768 | 2.5 | 12 | |
